Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan lambasted recent moves by India in the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir as an “ethnic cleansing” ploy during a speech Wednesday marking Pakistan’s Independence Day.
Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have detained more than 1,300 people during an ongoing security lockdown intended to ward off a popular uprising in the country’s only Muslim-majority region, the Independent reported Wednesday.
India’s recent decision to declare Chinese Kashmir an area controlled by New Delhi brings the region to the brink of nuclear war, China’s state-run Global Times warned this week.
Security forces in India reportedly imposed tight restrictions on mosques across Indian-administered Kashmir for Monday’s Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday.
India’s foreign minister arrived in Beijing on Sunday, days after New Delhi deemed Chinese Kashmir to be a territory administered by the Indian federal government.
A Pakistani cleric described as an associate of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to wage jihad against Indian troops in Kashmir, the Times reported Friday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted this week that his decision to revoke Kashmir’s autonomy will end “separatism, corruption, terrorism” in the restive region.
The Afghan Taliban on Thursday called for peace between India and Pakistan after India revoked Kashmir’s autonomy, urging the nuclear-armed rivals to refrain from violence.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan this week warned that India’s decision to revoke Kashmir’s limited autonomy could lead to “genocide.”
Pakistan this week announced plans to expel the Indian envoy and suspend trade with its neighbor after New Delhi dissolved the autonomy of the portion of Muslim-majority Kashmir it controls.
Workers from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India can marry “fair girls” from Kashmir, a lawmaker declared this week after the Himalayan region lost its autonomy.
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah confirmed Tuesday new regulations on Kashmir will ensure New Delhi takes over the two portions held respectively by Pakistan and China.
Lawmakers in India passed a bill Tuesday that strips the statehood of the Indian-administered portion of Muslim-majority Kashmir.
NBC News cited anonymous sources Wednesday claiming U.S. intelligence officials believe Osama bin Laden’s son and possible successor as leader of al-Qaeda, Hamza bin Laden, is dead.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper applauded the United States on Monday for offering to mediate the ongoing Kashmir sovereignty dispute between India and Pakistan, admitting China stands to benefit significantly if Kashmir becomes peaceful enough for Beijing to invest in infrastructure products there.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said he was “surprised” by India’s reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to help resolve the deadly dispute between their countries.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan this week advocated for “a reset” in his country’s tense relationship with the U.S., vowing to take decisive action against the “30,000 to 40,000” terrorists operating in his country as requested by the United States.
The Afghan government has asked for “clarification” on U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks about being able to wipe Afghanistan “off the face of the earth” if he really wanted to win the war there.
The Indian government denied U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him to mediate the territorial dispute over Kashmir between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, arguing that it is a bilateral issue no third party can help resolve.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday suggested that the Taliban should play a role in Afghanistan’s political process after a peace agreement is reached, a move that could allow the narco-jihadi group to return to office in Kabul after U.S. forces removed its regime from power in late 2001 for harboring the 9/11 perpetrator al-Qaeda.
A ten-year-old Christian boy in Pakistan was allegedly raped, tortured, and killed by his Muslim employers at a dangerous scrap metal factory for demanding full pay to help support his mother, brother, and drug-addict father, a media outlet reported over the weekend.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed a crowd of some 30,000 Pakistani-Americans in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, promising that under his administration a “new Pakistan” is “being created in front of your eyes.”
“We’ve been there 19 years in Afghanistan. It’s ridiculous,” Trump said.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday congratulated Pakistan on the arrest of Hafiz Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization and alleged mastermind of the brutal 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai that killed 164 people.
Police across the UK began the first ever national crackdown on forced marriage at a number of airports on Monday as latest figures show a spike in children being trafficked abroad to marry family members or acquaintances.
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urged supporters in the disputed Kashmir region to inflict “unrelenting blows” on Indian soldiers and their government, the Long War Journal learned this week from one of the terrorist group’s media arms.
Secretary General Khurram Nawaz Gandapur drew jeers on Twitter for a post that praised a pilot’s skill — in Grand Theft Auto
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will meet President Donald Trump during a visit to Washington this month, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday.
The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party on Wednesday suspended a member of its leader in Sindh province until further notice for physically assaulting a journalist during a live news talk show over the weekend.
Human traffickers from Pakistan and China are forcibly prostituting hundreds of predominantly Christian new wives sold to Chinese men by impoverished relatives under pretenses that they will live out better lives in China, Voice of America (VOA) reported over the weekend.
A senior Pakistani lawmaker said on Sunday history is full of “U.S. strategic blunders” and Washington “must realize it cannot blackmail other countries for its own strategic interests.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday released the International Religious Freedom Report for 2018 and announced the expansion of the State Department’s efforts to address religious liberty around the globe.
Islamist leaders from various countries, including some that house operations by the terror-linked Muslim Brotherhood (MB), this week mourned the death of Egypt’s toppled President Mohamed Morsi who died from a heart attack during a court appearance in Cairo on Monday.
A Hindu doctor working in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province was arrested on charges of blasphemy on Monday after a local cleric filed a police complaint against him.
Unknown terrorists attacked Pakistan’s Rehmani and Afghanistan’s Isteghfar mosques around Friday prayers, killing four worshippers, including one of the religious clerics, and injuring 35 others during Ramadan, the ongoing holiest month for Muslims.
Police officers in Pakistan this week arrested an engineer from China for allegedly pushing a Pakistani worker into a three-story-deep furnace for failing to understand his instructions at a factory in Punjab’s Faisalabad region.
Popular blog hosting platform WordPress.com has begun a censorship spree, blacklisting at least two blogs dedicated to monitoring the spread of radical Islam.
Pakistan authorities reportedly arrested a retired 50-year-old army official this week for allegedly writing “derogatory comments” about Islamic personalities on Facebook, which violates the country’s blasphemy law.
An Islamist filmed a message making the rounds on the Internet this week saying he is in Canada to slay Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi, who was recently released from prison in Pakistan after spending nearly a decade on death row over false blasphemy allegations.
Pakistan has held a Christian couple, including a disabled husband, on death row for more than five years for allegedly sending a blasphemous text to a Muslim man despite being illiterate, the British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) reported Sunday.
